Method of cooling gas and separating gasolene therefrom.



No. 883,640. PATBNTED MAR. 3l, 19018.

. D. HASTINGSz A. `W. BRINK. METHOD OP COOLING GAS AND SEPARATING GASOLENE THERFROM.

^ APPLICATION ILED APR.,19o7. 2 SHEETS SHEBT 1 @No. 8x8-3,640. PATENTED MAR. 31, 1908.

D. HASTINGS & A. W. BRINK. METHUD 0F COOLING GAS AND SEPARATING GASOLENE THEREFROM.

APPLICATION FILED APB.. 6.1907.

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A TTORNE YS DENNIs HAsTINGs AND ANDREWVW. BRINK,-O;F OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

METHOD OF COOLING4 GAS AND SEPARTING GASOLENE Til-IERiEI-ELOLL4 Moissac/io.

Specification o f Letters Patent'.

PaientedMi-irch si, 1908;

oiigiiial application inea December 1o, 190e, serial No. semis. Divided and this application med A'prii c, 1907.'

Seiial No. 366,788.

Gas andl Separating Gasolene Thereirom, of

which the following is a specification.

il`his invention relates to a method of coole 'ing compressed gas and' separating gasolene and other light hydrocarbons from naturalas at the compressing station o r at the Well. A further object ol the invention is to pro vide Aan improved method of separating gasolene and'na-phtha-from natural gas and to wash and urify the gas in order to prevent deposits in t e gas' main andgat the burner ti s. With these' and other 4objects in. View, t ev invention consists inthe novel method here- 30-3-3 of said figure. .'-Fig 4 is a similar View li'nafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings ,Figure'lv is a plan View', partly in the nature ofl a dia-i' .gram of an apparatus for cooling compressed gas and separating' gasolene therefrom Ito be used in carrying the method into effect.) Fig.`

2 is .an elevation' illustrating a slightly modified form of apparatus. Fig. 3 -is a transonthe line 4-4 cti-Fig. l. Similar numerals. o reference areemployed to inilicate correspondin parts throughout the several figures ofthe rawings.

The apparatus shownin Fig. l is located in a streamof running water or 1n a reservoir of water, as indicated at 10., f

The gas under compression enters through a h eader 15, and passesthrough a plurality 'ot pi es 16 toI an intermediate header 17, from wA 1ch the gas 'flows at slightly reduced temerat'ure through aseries of pipes 18. Which ead to seplarating pipes 19 of greater diame ter than tv e pi es 18, and thence ilows from the ipes 19 t rough smaller pipes'ZO lto va hea( er v2l fromwhleh the gas 1s carried to. a holder or to the point-Where it is to be used'.

Near the discharging end of each of the pipes `18 is arranged-a iquid spray tube 22, through which ,Water oroil is forced under pressure from a suitable pum-p 23, the liquid eing atomized, so as to more thoroughly in termingle with' the stream of das.

i lThe atomized liquid is preerably. at a low temperature and reduces the temperature of iicial pressure is highly heated.

vgasolene, can be used over and over by Vconfsuction side of the --It is found in practice, that Where the gas 1s i y the gas to a considerable extent, it being tinderstood that the gas under natural or artiy The mingled gas and water orI oil `passes into the separating pipes 19 which, being of larger diameter than the i es 1S, 'per-mits expansion of the gas and sli speed at which the streams of gas are moving, so that there'is ample opportunity for the separation oi the gasolene'and other light hydro-'carbons, and impurities from the gas roper.

g itly checks the llaoi" the liquidwill tiow'by gravity tothe i vlower portions of the pipes 19, IWhile ther-gas is free to pass off through the pipe .20 to the discharge header 21..

The liquid flows from the discharge end of each pipe 19 through a small pi e 25toa rev'ceiying pipe 26, from which it ows by'gravity, oris pumped to a collecting tank 30, the `liquid passing through an automatictrap or traps 31 in order to prevent the passage of the gas'intothe receiving tank. i

therefrom by gravity and .can be readily7 drawn off into a storage tank. If oil 1s use gathered into the collecting tank,l With the necting the lower portionof the tank to 'the orce pump 23.

heated'by'high compression and cooled in the manner vdescribed, t.he sudden change in the temperature of the gasprecipitates a quam tity of gasolenetherefromand thisis found to be a very economical and 'proiitable --method of gathering gasolene Without inter= fering with the flow, o r reducing the Icandle power of.' the gas'. A,4 further advantage gained is that by reducing the temperature of 0fas, the'friction in the ipe line is consid- Where the invention is used in connection with natural gas, either at the Well or at any If water is used, the gasolene 'separates or liuids otherthan water, lsuch fluid, when 1 itc point in a pipe' linefleading therefrom, the i structure is modii'ied as shown-in Fig. In

ic the this case the pipe35 through w stream of gas flows from the Well, `is connected to two branch pipes I36,' and thence ows thrdugh smaller ipes 37 into a liquid reservoir 38 which in tlie present instance is shown in the' form of an elongated tube.

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5') reservoir 38`,1so, that the gas 4ia compelled to.

- Ease through the li id, and in so doing will e cooled, and at t esame tirne will'permit the separation therefrom fromthe t gasolene and other light hydro oarbons, after-.which 10 the gas) Passesrol throughpipes, 39 to a-dis-V charge jplpell.'4 4

'Thegasolen'e separates'rornjthe lli uid inI thereservoirS 'by avity, rsingftot e top of such liquid, and owing'oll through pipes 15 414to aree'eiving ipe Ll2 ,en d thence passing 'to astorage or eo leetngl tank 43.\A By using'V this deviee', the gasolene fis 'separated from thenaturel gas at Very' 'slight-,expense, Without stoppingthe flow ofthe gas, and without 2o decrease-in the eandle power thereof.

:"-We elaim:--4 .The herein described method of separating gasoleefromastream of` flowing gas under pressure, saidfinethod consisting in spraylnv Jets of Water transversely across the path ol 2 f the stream of gas while under rassure there,- 'btformin a wall ojlwater ivided into a 'p urali-ty o jets fjor eontaet with all portions-"l- V of the as streem, allowing the gas to expend' imme 1at/ely' after its passage through the-Q0 "Wall-ofwater andeonductin the expanding volume of 4ges in a' horizontapath foraeonsiderable Vd1sta'nee Atol permit depositl of Anois-l ture and-im 'urities Without contact offsu'eh moisturea im ui'itieswith the '-bodyf gas 'ecedin for 'fol that lfrom wluehfit is eposite and at'the same time, subjecting fthe' gas' to the action of aco'olinv a 'ent'.-` In'testimony that VWe elailn t eoregoing vas our'own,l We have hereto affixed our'slgnail tures in the preseneeof twoWitnesses.4 DENNIS' HASTINGS.

'1 ANDREW W. BRINK. Witnessem THEODOBVEENDEIRLEIN,

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